Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-06
THE CONTEST.
Some more witnesses + Tnmincd
=, y. e Yesterd1y.

THE CONTEST.
Some more witnesses + xnmincd
Kesterday.
s9At 10 o'sl,ok y,itsciay morning the
taking OF the tassim,ay for Mr.. Lynch
ID ths Cnyrsssioa,t coatest was coa.
kinu ID, bsiore Notary Ovens. Mr.. Lynch
has by ths tsstim m,ny Of Counsy Clerk
Dan,m ,or thoroughly established ths
fact that nsnly 2)o Dsmosrasic voters
y sre left off tue G,sst Register when
should have been placsd on the
roll and all ,wsi to vote. The tsstimoay
Of yesterday proves conolusivsly that
tbs Republican Supervisors re districsed Z
'shs city an threw into the White House
Pre1,int, slrsld largely Dam3crlsic. so
m any Mora D am ,srasic votes that it was
smaiter of impossibility for all Of them
to cast their ballots. 1t is also in testi.
mopy That the Republicans by every
means in their power retarded and OBJ.
structed the Democratic voters in de.
posting their ballots, even going so far
IS 10 place dummies" in line, and thus
kept legal voters from exercising the
elective fran chise.
Sidney Lacey was placed upon the
stand. he restified that he was at the
White HouRe Precinct nearly all day on
the day Of election, and it took each
voter nearly three-q uarters OF an hour
to deposit his ballot. There were from
l75 to 900 vo ters in line at the middle OF
the day.
Mr.. Jose phi D. Lynch, contestant, was
called and testified as follows:
@. By Mr.. Robsrts. Mr.. Lynch,
You are the contes tant in this case, are
you not, sir
A. Yes, sir.
@. Were you in the city of Los An
geles In October last?
A. / was portions of October; the
rest Of the time in transitu between here
and other places.
O. Did you, in any month last year.
in company with three gentlemen, make
petition or application to the Board OF
Super visors ~ to the redistricting OF the
city of Los An geles?
A. Captain Thorn. Mr.. Bilderrain and
myself visited the Board of Supervisors
with that view.
@. What m onth was it, sir 2?
A. 1t was the day before started to
San Francisco to attend the State Con-
vention. 1t was in August. 1t was
three or four days before the meeting of
the State Con vention.
@. What was done there at the Board
of Supervisors :?
A. We made representation that by
reason of the additions to the polling
places it would be absolutely impossible
to give to the citizens of Los Angeles
their right to vote, and we represented
IN parti cular that several of the pre-
cincts were greatly crowded-notably
the White Hou Sc. Mr.. Bilderrain pre-
sented plat which he had worked up
with some car 9, embracing some fifteen
preci nets. which he and we thought
would give q fair opportunity to the
voters to get in their votes.
@. Did the Supervisors take any &C.
tion then, at that time? n
A. was obliged to leave to catch the
train.
Q, How long did you remain absent
before you re turned?
A., Well, cannot recall the dates.
came down, and think / was here
couple Of weeks, and left about the 2Sth
of September-27tho of September. My
first appointm ent was at Bakersfield on
the 18th of september, and l was off
and on here possibly a week or ten days,
yes. possibly two weeks, before leaving.
@. Yoz know nothing, then, as to
what happened with reference to the
registration?
A. No, sir, l was engaged in my
campaign matters. and was unable to
give it much attention.
Q. You were here on the day of the
election, the2i OF November last were
you mott
A. was, sir.
Q. Where was your voting place in
this town!
A. At the White House Precinct, in
the Second Ward.
Q. Did you vote there that day, sir?
A. did, sir.
@. At what time!
A. Between the hours of IL and L.
Q. At that time what was the state
OF the polls as regards the number of
voters in line:
A. When arrived there the line run
nearly down the whole of the CONNER.
cial street length Of the White House,
and extended up to the polling place.
Ata later stage, when was half way up
the line, there were thirty.seven people
ahead of me. counted them. should
suppose there must have been, when
first took my place, fully hundred men
in line.
@. What time--if you took any no.
tice of It; what time did it take you,
from the time that you entered the ranks
or the line of voters, for the purpose OF
voting; what time did it take you to de.
posit your ballot at the ballot box?
A. 1t took me forty.two minutes. I
know, because I drew my watch out and
called the attention of the people to the
crowded state Of the polls, and, perhaps
somewhat impertinently = announced
that that was the way the Republican
Board of Supervisors treated Demo
cratic Ward, and held my watch in my
hand until I voted.
10. And it took you uforty.two minutes
A. 1t took me forty.two minutes.
A. During the time that you wert
there at the polls did you see any per
sons leave the ranks?
A. After had been there-just abou
the time / counted the thirty-sever
ahead of me, the gentleman in front o.
me dropped out and said he could mo-
wait, he had business. And shortly af
forwards the gentleman behind me drop
ped out; stated he could not put in the
time.
Q. Do you know those gentlemen,
either of them?
A. l do NOT, sir.
Mr.. B. Cohn testified that there were
sone thirty voters shut out when
fho rsolla clorad He aoid thara waro